An amusing find over at the Kerry campaign website – my search for “Christmas Cambodia” brought up this Washington Post article of June 2003, from the campaign site archives. The CIA hat story already been well circulated across the blogosphere, but you’d think the webmasters would have discretely deleted it. (As they evidently did with this one which still registers as a hit under the search word “Cambodia”, though the word no longer exists there.)
Or maybe they don’t yet know it’s problematic?
A close associate hints: There’s a secret compartment in Kerry’s briefcase. He carries the black attach� everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.
“Who told you?” he demanded as he reached inside. “My friends don’t know about this.”
The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.
“My good luck hat,” Kerry said, happy to see it. “Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia.”
Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn’t complex after all; it was Kerry.
He smiled and aimed his finger: “Pow.”
A saved a screenshot of the relevant portion of the page here in case it disappears.
And speaking of the Kerry website discrepencies, reader Mike Power sent this;
I just finished reading the latest from Instapundit’s blog and now it seems there is more to the Kerry military saga than I was aware of. Most people are under the impression that Kerry got out of the service in 1970. But now we find out his release was 1978 and as a member of the Naval Reserve, he met a delegation from North Vietnam. Unless this meeting was sanctioned by the U.S. Government, this sounds troublesome. It was at this time that Kerry was on his anti-Vietnam rant. Fraternizing with the enemy maybe??
As Mike mentions, this was outlined by Glenn Reynolds a couple of days ago. Reynolds is still hot on the media watch trail, as they twist and dodge and bury the most damaging aspects of the swift boat debacle.
And some military perspective on the Kerry service records.
Meanwhile, the Democratic front “MoveOn.org” is fighting back, with former Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan promising the “mother of all backlashes”.
That’s right – a page out of Saddam Hussein’s propoganda playbook.
How deep does the Rove infiltration run in that party?
Kerry was a fixture in the radical anti-war movement of the 60s counter-culture. Many of the organizations were financed by Soviet money channelled through communist front organizations.
Presumably the Russian motive was destabilization of social and political systems within the United States. They were successful.
Many of us who lived through those turbulent times realize that Kerry’s organization was almost certainly an indirect recipient of financing from suspicious and sinister sources.